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Internationally Renowned Bariatric Surgeon

Rami Lutfi, MD, FACS, FASMBS

• Past President, American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Foundation
• Past President, Illinois Association of Bariatric Surgery
• Founder, Midwest Bariatric Summit
• Travels internationally training other metabolic and bariatric surgeons on the most recent, innovative techniques utilized today
• Performed thousands of bariatric procedures, and written extensively about metabolic and bariatric surgery for leading medical journals
• Performed the first laparoscopic gastric sleeve in the state of Illinois
• Medical Director and Section Chief of Metabolic Surgery and Weight Loss, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
• Bariatric Surgery Fellowship Program Director, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
• Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
• Completed Clinical Fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Vanderbilt University
• Completed Research Fellowship in Foregut Disorders and Obesity, Vanderbilt University

 

 

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